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Everything you list there (other than "etc., etc., etc) is under either /etc or /var/named. Backup both of those as well, and you've got all your config data. I generally also run "rpm -qa > ~/ALL-INSTALLED-RPMS" before installing the newest Fedora or CentOS, so I retain a record of what packages had been installed prior to the upgrade. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Protip: put /home, /opt and /usr/local on dedicated partitions or > volumes so > > that you can reformat /, /boot, etc., without erasing user data and > custom > > software installs. > > But I would still lose my DHCP, internal DNS, NFS, NTP, multiple user > account passwords, printer configs, crontabs, etc., etc., etc.; if I > did this. Even though I only have a few machines, I don't run them > as if they were single-user Internet browsing machines. > > > It is not possible to go the other way (GPT to MBR) without wiping and > > reformatting the disk. > > Apparently not always true. This guy apparently wrote GPT fdisk: > > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ > > and has a page which describes how to do it (when it is possible): > > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html > > He also discusses using Hybrid MBR/GPT partitioning on other web pages > as well as UEFI booting. Looks like a good resource overall for > this. > > Bill Bogstad > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: abreauj at gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / 2013 PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 2013 / ID 0x920063C6 / FP A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 2011 / ID 0x32A492D8 / FP 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8
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